Building a House...continued

These are some more photos that we got inspiration from....

Love the white washed effect on the door, in fact I like the whole picture.

This is the light fitting that we liked and guess what... we replaced the light fittings in our house with these. I will post before and afters soon, not quite finished yet.

We liked the look of these handles,

and these, we also replaced handles in our new house, they are very similar to these, I will show you a comparison in another post. I like the look of this sliding door, much nicer than the standard rails that are more commonly used. We have sliding doors in our house however the door slides into the wall cavity.

Have a great weekend .........

Bathrooms

I have lots of Bathroom inspiration pictures, must be because I love escaping to a nice long Bath after a busy week. I chose some of the best pictures that illustrate what we wanted when we built a house.

I really like the bathroom in this photo, it is simple and functional. The concrete floor, the claw foot tub in front of the window, the shelves above the bath, the stool beside the bath are all appealing and something similar to what we wanted.

I like the prettiness of the room above, it is a bit too fancy for our liking but we would've incorporated one of the items into our bathroom. I couldn't do them all as altogether it is too much for our taste.

We wanted claw foot tubs in our new house (in fact we actually bought two and still have them) and we were contemplating a shower over the tub in the en suite.

I really like the vanity unit above, I like the solid finish and the size. I like the mirror above the bath as well.

This vanity started life as a dresser. I think re purposing an item is a great idea, you end up with unique furniture and fittings with character and stories behind them.

If concrete is too expensive would is just as nice. I would probably give the vanity a white wash finish though.

I love the cupboard, I think more than anything it is the shelves full of luxury bath items that catches my fancy.

A nice simple white bathroom, nice towel hooks, unusual vanity, pretty and functional.

Building

I have been tidying my files full of photos and trying to create some semblance of order. As I have plodded along I found pictures I had kept as inspiration for our house we were planning on building. Prior to buying our house we had seriously considered building a house and a friend of ours who is a draftsman drew up plans and we got quotes and found land that we liked. Before we made our final decision we also looked at established houses and in the end we bought our house we are in now. When we were looking at what we wanted in a house we decided that we would like an open plan house based on a French Provincial style. Not with all the fussy trimmings but a rustic style house that had simple finishes. The pictures below were examples of the colour of the walls, the textured finish of the walls and the type of floor (concrete, but not highly polished) we wanted in the family, dining kitchen, wet areas and halls.

Wall colour and texture

Wall colour and open plan space

Wall colour and finish -textured with no cornices

Wall colour and finish, floor is close to what we wanted.

Flooring and fireplace

Yes we were going to have a fireplace as well, we were going to go with a gas flame but we wanted it to look real but without the mess. We wanted stone cladding for the fireplace in the family room to add texture and be the feature in the room.

For the lounge room we wanted a smaller more intimate room, made cosier with carpet to lay on whilst watching movies and a less obtrusive fire place to keep the room warm and comfortable in the cold Orange weather.

As much as we love our house now, we would still like to build a house one day. It will be interesting to see how our tastes and requirements change over time.